Sir William Robert Cox, KCB (2 January 1922 – 27 June 1981) was a British civil servant.
Cox attended Christ's College, Cambridge, before he entered HM Civil Service in 1941.
He served in the Foreign Office before transferring to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning in 1950, which subsequently became the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
[1] Later in 1974, he was appointed Chief Executive of the PSA and Second Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment, serving until his retirement on health grounds in 1981;[1][2] he died on 27 June that year.
[1] He had been appointed a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1976.